[Sca-cooks] Kitten help

[Angie Malone]

My cat is very anti-social and only comes and lays on you when she
wants to be extremely affectionate, which is when she lays on your
abdomen and purrs and then for some reason flexes her paws while
digging her claws into your abdomen and making little red pin pricks.
What I do is I grab both her front paws and tell her to stop clawing
and pat them(sort of smacking lightly) with my other hand.  She stops
for a while.  I think maybe grabbing them and neutralizing them
makes her wonder what's up.

She's a few years old.

		Angeline


>Smacking a cat is not always a good idea, makes them afraid of you
>afterwards.
>The thing I heard works best (and worked for my cat) is keeping a bottle of
>water with a spray gun all the times with you. When the cat starts shredding
>you, aim, and shoot :-) Cats hate a cold shower.
>And most of the times, with this method, they will end up fearing the bottle
>and not you.